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Alvechurch FC Match Day Programme Alvechurch FC Match Day Programme v 2nd Qualifying Round Saturday 22nd September 2018 3pm Alvechurch FC – Who’s Who? Alvechurch Football Club Limited Company Limited by Guarantee Company ID 03031058 Registered Address Lye Meadow, Redditch Road, Alvechurch, Worcs B48 7RS Members of: Birmingham County FA, Worcestershire FA Southern League and Midland Floodlit Youth League PATRON Alan Smith PRESIDENT Richard Jennings BOARD OF DIRECTORS Chairman ~ Richard Thorndike Doug Griffiths, Steve Denny, Neil Tomlin, Paul Weaver, Peter Gwilliam HONORARY VICE-PRESIDENTS Rick Edwards, John Foster, Ray Lloyd, Steve Palin, Rob Waldron, Ray Yardley LIFE MEMBERS Ray Lloyd, Keith Rostill COMPANY/CLUB SECRETARY, FINANCE DIECTOR Steve Denny COMMERCIAL & EVENTS MANAGER Richard Thorndike MATCH SECRETARY Alan Deakin PROGRAMME EDITOR Alan Deakin SOCIAL SECRETARY Paul Weaver MATCHDAY PROMOTIONS Trevor Ball & Sue Tomlin GROUND MANAGEMENT Neil Tomlin, Craig Nicholls, Rob Waldron FOOTBALL MANAGEMENT TEAM Manager ~ Ian Long Assistant ~ Rich Colwell Coaches ~ Keith Rostill, Chris Walwyn, Ollie Harthill, Chris Essex Physio ~ Paul Millward, Kevin March SOCIAL CLUB STEWARDS & HOSPITALITY Neil Tomlin, Paul Weaver, Steve Patton, Fred Evans Alvechurch FC – Honours F.A. AMATEUR CUP SEMI-FINALISTS 1965/66 FA CUP THIRD ROUND PROPER 1973/74 BIRMINGHAM SENIOR CUP FINALISTS 1980/81; 1981/82; 2009/10 WINNERS WORCESTERSHIRE COMBINATION DIVISION ONE - 1962/63; 64/65; 66/67 WORCESTERSHIRE COMBINATION DIVISION TWO - 1965/66 WORCESTERSHIRE SENIOR CUP 1972/73; 73/74; 76/77; 2018/19 WORCESTERSHIRE SENIOR URN 2003/04; 04/05; 07/08; 09/10; 12/13; 15/16 WORCESTERSHIRE CTY JNR CUP - 1968/69 WORCESTERSHIRE INFIRMARY CUP 2006/07; 07/08 WORCESTERSHIRE COUNTY FA YOUTH CUP - 1979/80; 2007/08 NORTHERN PREMIER – SOUTH (Step 4) – Runners Up – 2017/18 MIDLAND FOOTBALL LEAGUE – PREMIER DIVISION (Step 5) – Runners Up – 2015/16 CHAMPIONS – 2016/17 MIDLAND FOOTBALL LEAGUE – LEAGUE CUP – 2016/17 MIDLAND COMBINATION PREMIER DIVISION - 2002/03 MIDLAND COMB. DIVISION 1 - 1971/72 MIDLAND COMBINATION CHALLENGE CUP – 1964/65; 65/66; 67/68; 68/69; 71/72; 2002/03 MIDLAND COMBINATION INVITATION CUP 1966/67; 1967/68 MIDLAND COMBINATION PRESIDENTS CUP Alvechurch FC – Honours WEST MIDLANDS REGIONAL LEAGUE PREMIER 1973/74; 74/75; 75/76; 76/77 WEST MIDLANDS REGIONAL LEAGUE CHALLENGE CUP 1973/74; 74/75; 77/78 SOUTHERN LEAGUE MIDLANDS DIVISION - 1980/81 SOUTHERN LEAGUE CHAMPIONS (Championship Match) - 1980/81 SOUTHERN LEAGUE CUP - 1982/83 BIRMINGHAM SENIOR AM. CUP - 1973/74 J W HUNT CUP – 2016/17 BIRMINGHAM COUNTY FA JNR CUP - 1965/66; 67/68 BIRMINGHAM COUNTY FA YTH CUP 1978/79; 99/2000 PLANET CUP - 1964/65; 65/66 CHRISTCHURCH CUP - 1964/65; 65/66 LEN GOULDEN CUP - 1969/70 W. EDGAR LEE MEMORIAL CUP 1966/67; 69/70; 70/71; 72/73; 73/74; 76/77 TONY ALLDEN MEMORIAL CUP - 1969/70 GT BRITAIN POLICE CH. CUP 1976/77 SMEDLEY CROOKE CUP – 1982/83; 86/87; 2000/01 BORDER COUNTIES FLOODLIT LGE 1975/76; 76/77 MIDLAND FLOODLIT YOUTH LEAGUE 2000/01 Alvechurch FC – A Proud History Alvechurch Football Club, with its picturesque The club became the hub of village life and a ground providing a grandstand view of the supporters club was formed under the rolling Worcestershire hills in the Arrow Valley chairmanship of Tom Atkins. The majority of the and its Lye Meadow facilities which are steadily committee members were ladies, who organised being added to and improved presents a far social events such as the Christmas Whist Drive different picture from when the club was and on one occasion a Carnival with Roy Court founded in 1929. Then the team had to change in and Angela Teague as the Prince and Princess. a pub and walk over the road to the local The club prospered from the funds raised by playing fields to contest their minor league these events. Few village clubs at the time could matches. The move to Lye Meadow in 1957 was own and use three different coloured strips in a the turning point in the club's history and it season and what is more to have a committee began to go from strength to strength. who ensured that the kit was washed after each match. The level of support for Alvechurch F.C. The earliest mention of a Football Club in was such that for a needle match against Alvechurch dates back to 1913 when a team Feckenham, six coach loads of supporters called Alvechurch Juniors was recorded. By the travelled from the village. 1920s, the team were known as Alvechurch Swifts and were playing football on Crown During this successful period matches were still Meadow and using the Red Lion Inn as their being played at the Meadows, but as this venue headquarters. belonged to the village no admission charge They were a successful team winning the could be made. A box would be passed round Redditch Cup and Shield in 1924. hoping for donations to the club, so when the 1926 brought the General Strike followed by the opportunity arose to move to a new ground at depression. The club folded until late in 1929 the Guants, the club took the decision to do so. when a team of young players, resurrected the This was a field situated below the Church, off Alvechurch Juniors name. To be called juniors the Snake Lane. Hence it was possible to make an average age of the players had to be less than 21. admission charge, but when the land was required for building houses a further move was The Meadows at the end of Meadow Lane, had necessary. Mr Philip Palmer sold the field been donated to the village by Col. Wiggins, adjoining his house on Redditch Road to the club making an ideal venue for the team. for £1,000. As a result of determined fund raising, the club was able to raise this sum in five years, The team played successfully in the Redditch this providing a permanent home – Lye League until 1939, but was disbanded following Meadow. the outbreak of war. In 1955 the club achieved a rare accolade from It took a little while after the war for Alvechurch the “Birmingham Sports Argus” newspaper when Football Club to re-establish itself. Several village it was voted “ in the top ten in the midlands”. lads, after demobilisation, went to work at Junior League Clubs, never mind a H.D.A. and joined the factory football team, Worcestershire village team, were rarely given which was a successful club playing in top class that kind of coverage at the time, if at all. amateur football. When the village team was revived it attracted a number of these players. Following the move to Lye Meadow in 1957 the By 1948 a strong football committee had formed club captured the imagination and enthusiasm chaired by Major Border, with an excellent hard of the midlands in the mid-sixties with the team’s working secretary/groundsman in Frank Bullock giant-killing runs in the FA Amateur Cup. In the and an equally excellent treasurer in George 1964/65 season Church reached the quarterfinals Louch. The president was Harold Norton, a and then got to the semi-finals the following gentleman whose word was his bond and gave year, where a defeat against Wealdstone at support by attending matches and providing Stamford Bridge denied the village club a team strips. Wembley appearance. 1973/74 was, in fact the most successful season in the clubs history. Joining the West Midlands (Regional) League, the club won the Premier Division Championship, the League Challenge Cup, the Birmingham Senior Amateur Cup and the Worcestershire Senior Cup. In the FA Cup Church reached the Third Round Proper, going down 4-2 at Bradford City after beating Exeter City at St James Park in the First Round Proper. In 1974/75 again Alvechurch achieved the West Midlands League and Cup double despite losing five players, but were beaten in the final of the Worcestershire Senior Cup by a single goal. In 1975/76 the club completed a hat trick of Alvechurch finished runners-up in the West League Championships and also won the Border Midlands Alliance League in 1961 under the Counties Floodlit League. guidance of Rhys Davies and joined the Worcestershire Football (now Midland) 1976/77 saw Church win the League Combination in 1961/62 and claimed their first Championship a fourth consecutive time and this league title the following year. In twelve seasons was the year the Worcestershire Senior Cup and they won the championship four times and were the Border Counties Challenge Cup returned to runners-up on five other occasions. They also Lye Meadow. claimed the League Challenge Cup five times and were runners-up twice in this period. The club gained entry into the Southern League for the 1978/79 season and as the only true village club playing in the league finished in a creditable In their second year in the FA Cup Church third position. reached the first round proper in 1971/72 after the 11 hour, 6 match marathon in the Fourth Qualifying Round against Oxford City. This tie is now recorded in the Guinness Book of Records. 1980/81 saw another milestone for Alvechurch with the winning of the Midland Division and the Championship of the Southern League having beaten Southern Division Champions Dartford in the two legged final. However Alvechurch then went down 4-2 to Aldershot after a brave struggle in a match that The 1981/82 season produced a seesaw battle to was the 12th in three weeks for some of the team. retain the League Championship but Nuneaton In 1972/73 Church became the first amateur side finished the stronger to push Alvechurch into the to ever win the Worcestershire Senior Cup – runners-up position.
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